ça que la

/\ˌsa ke ˈla\/ adv

Letters

9 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

ça que la is anFrenchadv. It means: Pourtant, toutefois, cependant, malgré tout, d’ailleurs, quand même, tout de même, certes. Pronounced \ˌsa ke ˈla\.

Key facts for ça que la
PropertyValue
Headwordça que la
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\ˌsa ke ˈla\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ça que la is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ça que la is 9 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌsa ke ˈla\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pourtant, toutefois, cependant, malgré tout, d’ailleurs, quand même, tout de même, certes.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ça que la in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ça que la, spelled Ç-A- -Q-U-E- -L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pourtant, toutefois, cependant, malgré tout, d’ailleurs, quand même, tout de même, certes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ça que la"?
"ça que la" is spelled Ç-A- -Q-U-E- -L-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ˌsa ke ˈla\.
What does "ça que la" mean?
As an adv, "ça que la" means: Pourtant, toutefois, cependant, malgré tout, d’ailleurs, quand même, tout de même, certes.
How do you pronounce "ça que la"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ça que la" is \ˌsa ke ˈla\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ça que la" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.